Word: mashina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boardsailers receive some official encouragement, but rock groups and their fans have come under increasing attack in the Soviet press. One group called Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine) was denounced in the Communist youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda for "giving thousands of spectators dangerous injections of dubious ideas." As expressed in Time Machine lyrics, the ideas (for example: "There's no point in believing promises any more") hardly seem likely to set off alarm bells in the Kremlin. Still, Time Machine has made no albums and has been banned from playing in Moscow. New regulations have forced discos to cut back...
...Wonderful the World Is!, It Isn't Your Flowers That I Love and I'll Take You Away to the Tundra. Even newer, rock-oriented music does not stray far from this sentimental mold. One of the most progressive of Moscow's young rock bands, Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine), lays down reheated versions of vintage Chicago riffs...
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